Jim MacLennan

Jim MacLennan is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at IDEX Corporation, a Fortune 1000 manufacturer that sells highly engineered products in a variety of markets worldwide. MacLennan has responsibility for Corporate IT services for all IDEX business units, and also drives innovation through initiatives that leverage Information and Technology as growth drivers for the industrial manufacturing space. He regularly publishes his observations and insights on the intersection of business and technology - check out his work at www.cazh1.com.
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Art and Science of Data Visualization

“Data Visualization” has been an extremely active and popular topic for a…

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Design Thinking and Process – Is It In You?

Continuing a bit on my recent Design meme; I talk about the…

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Design and Change Management

I have developed a few strongly-held architectural beliefs, and one came up…

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A Little Too Literal (or, How to Teach Innovation)

Spoiler alert: It can’t be taught … What are you, somebody's lawyer?…

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IT Project Success: There’s Magic In the Middle

I don’t know where I first heard that phrase, or what it…

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What Really Motivates Us? Insights for your Tech Team

Over the last month or so, a large number of authors in…

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Defining Business Benefits: Hard and Soft

All projects should have an clear objective, a practical plan, and an…

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Capturing Knowledge, and Making in ‘Transferable’ (3 of 4)

Classroom teaching doesn't scale ... We’ve talked about the importance of training…

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Capturing Knowledge, and Making it ‘Findable’ (2 of 4)

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Previously, I talked about the critical importance of…

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